TY - BOOK AU - Spacks,Patricia Ann Meyer TI - Privacy: concealing the eighteenth-century self SN - 9780226768618 (electronic bk.) AV - PR858.P72 S67 2003eb U1 - 823/.509353 22 PY - 2003/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - English fiction KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism KW - Privacy in literature KW - Secrecy in literature KW - Self in literature KW - Roman anglais KW - 18e siècle KW - Histoire et critique KW - Vie privée dans la littérature KW - Secret dans la littérature KW - Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - Fictie KW - gtt KW - Engels KW - Privacy KW - Geheimen KW - Zelf KW - Privatheit KW - swd KW - Literatur KW - Englisch KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-236) and index; Privacies -- Privacies of reading -- The performance of sensibility -- Privacy, dissimulation, and propriety -- Private conversations -- Exposures : sex, privacy, and sensibility -- Trivial pursuits -- Privacy as enablement N2 - "In Privacy, Patricia Meyer Spacks explores eighteenth-century concerns about privacy and the strategies people developed to avoid public scrutiny and social pressure. She examines, for instance, the way people hid behind common rules of etiquette to mask their innermost feelings and how, in fact, people were taught to employ such devices. She considers the erotic overtones that privacy aroused because it might conceal desire. And perhaps most important, she explores the idea of privacy as a societal threat - one that bred pretense and hypocrisy in its practitioners. Through inspired readings of novels by Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, and Sterne, along with a penetrating glimpse into diaries, autobiographies, poems, and works of pornography written during the period, Spacks ultimately shows how writers charted the imaginative possibilities of privacy and its social repercussions."--Jacket UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=366007 ER -